Convert Alice worlds to Windows.exe for free without MAMA (how to)

[Nighthawk0973]

To do this you're going to need to make your world and package it into a .jar.

Than if my theory is correct you just need to create a C# program that does one thing. Here's the code for it:

public class JarToExe{

public static void main(String[] args){

     System.Process.Start("java -jar MyAliceWorld.jar");
}
}

Hopefully this will compile into a windows .exe file that will run your alice .jar file. With a few modifications I should be able to make this an easy to customize software that will make it so that people just type of the name of their .jar in a .txt file and than my program will do the rest.

EX: Suppose we have 3 files in this folder of ours. CrappyAliceGame.jar, JarToRun.txt, and Program.exe. Well we just rename Program.exe to something like CrappyAliceGame.exe, and than inside of our 'JarToRun.txt' we just type 'CrappyAliceGame.jar'. Than the source code of my program would get the .txt file data and use it to run the .jar like so:

using System;

public class Program{

    public static void main(String[] args){

        String Command = "";
        TextReader TR = new TextReader("JarToRun.txt");
        Command = TR.ReadLine();
        Command = "java -jar " + Command;
        Process.Start(Command);
        
}
}

Again Havn't Tested, don't know if it works YET XD

[DensetsuNoKaboom]

Someone should test to see if it works.

[arty-fishL]

This would not work as worlds are not in the format of Java programs and they are already zip files (equivalent to jars). You cannot make an Alice world standalone without taking parts of the Alice source code as Alice is required to run worlds, this is what Mama does as Meirs knew what he was doing with the source code - but I dont think anyone else does.

[waqar]

What is mama and what is its abbreviation?

[David B]

Originally Posted by arty-fishL

This would not work as worlds are not in the format of Java programs and they are already zip files (equivalent to jars). You cannot make an Alice world standalone without taking parts of the Alice source code as Alice is required to run worlds, this is what Mama does as Meirs knew what he was doing with the source code - but I dont think anyone else does.

Really? I always thought that Alice project files (.a2w) were a just a zip folder that contained a .jar file that was somehow responsible for what goes on in the program.